"It would have been fate - she didn't push her in. But if the worst had happened, I think Babe would have been enormously relieved - that burden all of her life would have been lifted and she could have become that mother she has always wanted to be," Badland told Metro.

"But to her, it was down to fate - she didn't actually do it, she just left her there. She enticed her to do something and then walked away from it - she would not have actually killed her.

"It's interesting, she left it to the Gods to settle. But then, goddamnit, it falls apart again, why does it never go right?"